Murphy Foster, former Senator for Louisiana

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Foster was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democrat. He served from 1907 to 1913.

He was previously a senator from Louisiana as a Democrat from 1901 to 1907.

Photo of Sen. Murphy Foster [D-LA, 1907-1913]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1901 to Mar 1913, Foster missed 507 of 1,081 roll call votes, which is 46.9%. This is much worse than the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	9	34.6%	64^th
1902 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	77^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	3	13.0%	41^st
1903 Jan-Mar	18	12	66.7%	91^st
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	17	47.2%	64^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	10	17.9%	38^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	56^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	17	54.8%	71^st
1907 Jan-Mar	38	26	68.4%	92^nd
1908 Mar-May	49	29	59.2%	72^nd
1909 Jan-Mar	35	20	57.1%	87^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	38	29.2%	66^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	2	28.6%	31^st
1910 Mar-May	36	23	63.9%	85^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	41	100.0%	85^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	25	48.1%	86^th
1911 May-Aug	94	15	16.0%	23^rd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	11	31.4%	63^rd
1912 Apr-Jul	105	71	67.6%	88^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	48	94.1%	85^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	65	58.6%	88^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Sen. Murphy Foster

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Missed Votes

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